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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [813r] (1642/1814)
The record is made up of 2 volumes with inserts (898 folios). It was created in 1892-1924. It was written in English, Urdu and German. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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REVENUE. RESOURCES, AND MANUFACTURES
Moscow, the remainder being spun in the hand-looms of Vezd and
Kerman. Persian cotton is, however, very short in the staple.
Mazanderan, Khorasan, Semnan, Knm, Kashan, Isfahan,
Cotton and the districts of Azerbaijan lying around Khoi
and Urumiah, are the chief centres of cultivation ; but I con
stantly came upon patches so planted in my rides through the
country. The industry first received a forward impetus at the
time of the American Civil War, when Persian cotton began to be
seen in foreign markets 5 but it has never been properly developed,
and is capable of much greater expansion. Jute is indigenous in
Mazanderan, and is used for making sacks ; but the amount raised
is insufficient for the needs of the country, and there is a steady
annual import by the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.
Of the silk industry, which first brought Persia within the
ken of modern Europe, which was formerly so rich, but for long
after the appearance of disease in 1864 remained on
the downward incline, I have spoken at length in an
earlier chapter on the Northern Provinces. Latterly, however,
there has been a revival; and the figures for 1889, though furnishing
a melancholy contrast to the brave totals before cited for bygone
years, were given to me as follows:—
Total Pkoduction.
Gilan and Resht
Mazanderan . . . .
Khorasan, Sebzewar, and Turbat
Tabriz mans
. 30,000
. 15,000
. 20,000
65,000 mans,
or 422,500 lbs.
In 1890 I hear that the value of exported silk waste alone
exceeded 30,000?.
The bulk of the Khorasan crop is sent to Yezd, Kashan, and
Isfahan—the Persian centres of the manufacturing trade—in
whose looms about 15,000 mans are annually employed. Of the
Mazanderan and Gilan crops, some 10,000 mans are either exported
to Baghdad or are consumed at Kashan and Isfahan. The total
remainder, i.e. 40,000 mans, are exported to Europe, the greater
quantity to Marseilles, via Russia, a small quantity being shipped
by Bombay.
The tobacco of Persia is known in every town and village in
the western half of the Asiatic continent; and greatly to be com-
VOL. II. K K
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These two volumes are George Curzon's own personal annotated copies of both volumes of his book Persia and the Persian Question , which was published in 1892. Alongside the volumes are various loose papers relating to Persia [Iran], consisting of the following: received correspondence; newspaper cuttings; publishers' press releases; cuttings from various booksellers' catalogues; various journal and magazine articles; two items of printed official British correspondence; several prints of photographs and sketches; and a few handwritten notes by Curzon.
In most cases these papers, which range in date from 1892 to 1924, relate to the chapters in the book where they were originally inserted, suggesting that they were kept by Curzon with the intention of using them to inform a revised edition of the book.
Of particular note among the small amount of correspondence are two letters received by Curzon in 1914 and 1915 from retired schoolmaster and Islamic scholar Sayyid Mazhar Hasan Musawi of Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India (ff 5-9 and ff 44-53). These letters, which are written in Urdu and are accompanied by English translations, discuss in detail several inaccuracies found in the Urdu version of Persia and the Persian Question .
The various prints of photographs and sketches, which were originally inserted into volume two, are of different locations in the Gulf region. Several of these appear to have been produced in preparation for the publication of the second volume of John Gordon Lorimer's Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Oman and Central Arabia (i.e. the 'Geographical and Statistical' section) in 1908, as they are identical to the versions found in that volume.
Also of note among the loose papers are an illustrated article from Country Life dated 5 June 1920, entitled 'The People of Persia' (ff 36-37), and a printed family tree of the Shah of Persia [Aḥmad Shah Qājār], produced in preparation of his visit to Britain in 1919 (f 233).
Volume one of Persia and the Persian Question contains a map of Persia, Afghanistan and Beluchistan [Balochistan], which is folded inside the front cover (f 1).
The German language material consists of a publisher's press release for two books authored by German archaeologist Ernst Emil Herzfeld (ff 29-30).
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- 2 volumes with inserts (898 folios)
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Foliation: this shelfmark consists of two physical volumes. The foliation sequence commences at the first folio of volume one (1-463), and terminates at the last folio of volume two (ff 464-898); these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Each volume contains a large number of loose leaves, which have been foliated in the order that they were inserted into the volume; for conservation reasons, these loose folios have been removed from the volume and stored separately. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers of the two volumes.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- Title
- Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Questionby George Curzon, with Inserted Papers
- Pages
- 54r:135v, 147r:149v, 158r:180v, 183r:221v, 224r:224v, 227r:246v, 248r:257v, 259r:260v, 268r:362v, 364r:364v, 367r:388v, 390r:400v, 402r:416v, 419r:432v, 434r:444v, 448r:462v, 464r:471v, 475r:481v, 483r:513v, 516r:525v, 527r:544v, 546r:563v, 566r:598v, 600r:622v, 624r:656v, 658r:665v, 667r:675v, 678r:684v, 687r:688v, 691r:691v, 693r:693v, 695r:708v, 711r:721v, 724r:726v, 728r:729v, 731r:736v, 742r:742v, 746r:757v, 759r:761v, 763r:763v, 765r:765v, 772r:777v, 780r:789v, 793r:794v, 797r:809v, 811r:821v, 825r:840v, 843r:898v
- Author
- Curzon, George Nathaniel, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
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